Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave, Paperback - Virginia Hamilton

Reducere. Now in Laurel-Leaf, Virginia Hamilton's powerful true account of the sensational trial of a fugitive slave. The year is 1854, and Anthony Burns, a ...

Reducere. In this powerful novel researched in NYC schools, Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton documents the struggle young people face as they simultaneousl...

Reducere. DescriptionThe dramatic story of the United States' destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the af...

Reducere. This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugiti...

Reducere. The changing fortunes of Detroit, told through the lens of the city's major sporting events, by the bestselling author of Soccernomics, and a prize...

Reducere. Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah's Mountain. Stretched before him are rolling hi...

Reducere. James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland and fleeing to Princeton, New Jersey, where he built a life in a bustling commu...

Reducere. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over inj...

Reducere. Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred pound musical prodigy who's prone to having fantasies, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits ...

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Reducere. Virginia Hamilton's Coretta Scott King Honor book is the breathtaking fantasy tale of slaves who possessed ancient magic that enabled them to fly a...

*Includes pictures *Includes stories about the fugitive slave law and accounts about it *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further r...

At the age of 19, scared and illiterate, James Pennington escaped from slavery in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery pr...

Reducere. DescriptionThe figure of the mammy occupies a central place in the lore of the Old South and has long been used to ullustrate distinct social pheno...

Reducere. This book is the first anthology of the autobiographical writings of Peter Randolph, a prominent nineteenth-century former slave who became a black...

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Reducere. Margaret Garner was the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture just outside of Cincinnati, slit the throat of her toddler daughter rather ...

Reducere. Unavailable for several years, Virginia Hamilton's award-winning companion to The People Could Fly traces the history of slavery in America in the ...

Their nickname was the Bloody First, given to them in recognition of their courageous conduct and supreme sacrifice in battle. In the midst of the ...

Reducere. DescriptionPrincess Ava used to be a weapon - sharp, strong and beautiful. But when she fails at her most important task, she's forced to flee from...

Although few recognize the name of Bras-Coup today, Bryan Wagner's riveting history The Life and Legend of Bras-Coup illustrates why the saga of th...

Reducere. Bringing Down the Mountains provides insight into how mountaintop removal has affected the people and the land of southern West Virginia. It examin...

Agent Under Siege by Lena Diaz Can they outsmart a killer who escaped justice?Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Nichole SevernNumber of...

Some of the most brutally intense infantry combat in World War II occurred within Germany's Hrtgen Forest. Focusing on the bitterly fought battle b...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II--pilots, navigators, and ...

Reducere. DescriptionLIKE MONTICELLO, Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest offers a significant archaeological view of slave life at the turn of the nineteenth c...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

We need a smarter, funnier, and more strategic left.

Reducere. Alex Driscoll, a US Army Special Forces combat veteran, seeks solitude on an isolated section of beach while awaiting a discharge forced upon him d...

Reducere. This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition combines the two most important African American slave narratives into one volume. Frederick Douglas...

Reducere. In a memoir of saints, sages, and swollen ankles, Helen walks across the Catholic heartland of Northern Spain. Her chosen route is the picturesque ...

Reducere. The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commen...

Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of...

An new edition of the classic memoir which depicts the violence and organised crime behind the acid house 'Summer of Love' scene of 1988. Reissued ...

Reducere. The summer of 1861 finds Shelby Campbell nervously exiting President Jefferson Davis's office, somewhat taken aback by his new commission; he'll be...

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Reducere. Growing up as one of fifteen children to black sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South, Samuel was raised to fight for what he believed in. From an ear...

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Reducere. Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah Commentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret Fuller This Modern Library edition combines two of the most impor...

On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, abolishing the practise throughout the Empire. The following ...

It could happen to you. It happened to the girl next door... When Theresa was 15 she moved to a new school and fell for an older pupil, Daniel.

DescriptionDuring the early seventeenth century, Kisama emerged in West Central Africa (present-day Angola) as communities and an identity for thos...

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Reducere. -The well-known author retells 24 black American folk tales in sure storytelling voice: animal tales, supernatural tales, fanciful and cautionary t...

Reducere. The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for12 years a powerful, riveting condemnation of slav...

An eye-opening illustrated review in words and pictures of the transition from steam to diesel during the 1950s and 60s as experienced by former Br...

"Anthony and another buddy of ours, Brett, set up a deal that would eclipse any other we had ever done. I joined the two of them for a dinner meeti...